THANK YOU All for making the Paris Petit Dejeuner card* the most popular on Zazzle - not sure what that means exactly but, now you can get it 20% off with FREE SHIPPING at least until May 22nd.BONNE JOURNEE !

Happy Birthday, Carol!! I hope you have a macaron today for each year you have been alive and that your birthday is a day filled with delight and decadence. And, I sincerely hope that all of your Paris dreams come true this year. Perhaps Paris for breakfast, lunch and dinner.:-)

And, I love all of your Zazzle goods. You always know how to tempt me.

Oh and I'll take a slice of that birthday cake, whenever you have a moment!Yesterday, I had my first French Macaron! Pistachio and a vanilla, from a local patisserie called Miel. They were both very, very good (and very, very addictive!). I now have to compare them to a Laduree macaron...Have a wonderful, luxurious birthday!

Good Morning Carol!I have read and loved your blog for sometime now and had to finally write you! My husband and I just returned from Paris (a first visit for both of us, plus it was our belated honeymoon/first anniversary trip!). I have to tell you that reading your blog helped me to decide some of the "must visits" while we were there. We love tea, coffee and desserts (for our wedding reception, we had a tea at night in a garden) and had all the addresses in my Moleskine of great places near our hotel in St. Germain des Pres to visit. We got to go to Laduree (accidentally found it open on May Day after having been told nothing would be open!) and Pierre Herme, but missed going to Mariage Freres. I will have to tell you about our secret find though! We went to the prettiest tea room on the Rue de Medicis across from the Jardin Luxembourgh. It's called The Cool (the as in the french word for tea). We had walked to the garden and walked a long while in it and around it and needed to have a little pick me up. My husband Victor had a tea that had flavors of vanilla and citrus fruits. I had the most delicious caramel tea. And we shared huge pieces of lemon meringe pie and cheesecake. The desserts were good, but not Laduree and Pierre Herme wonderful (we had been spoiled by them already!). But I have to say the setting was gorgeous, the tearoom itself was so pretty (very cute/elegant in shades of mauve and purples, my favorite colors) and the people working there were very nice. I would absolutely recommend it for the next time you are there. I would have liked to have lunch there because their "salades composee" looked really nice!

My husband was amazed one morning when I read your blog in the hotel before we went out for the day and you had been writing about Aquarelle. I told him it was the flowershop we had been past several times just down the street from us (we were on the Rue Dauphine) and I don't think he quite believed me until we walked past it again that day and then he recognized it too!

So thank you for very much for so much great inspiration on our trip and for making me think I am back in Paris everyday when I read your blog!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELL OF THE MACAROON BALL! So very glad that you were born. You bring grace and elegance to the page and blogosphere not to mention humor to our world. You d best!I do have a small token for you.xoConstanceps It's my birthday today too, so to speak.

Oh yes! Prints, prints, please! I'm a poor college students and I would love to hang some of these warm, cozy breakfast paintings in my dorm...but I can't shell out the money for the original or take the risk of it being bent/ruined in my summer storage. A print would solve all my problems! Please do consider, and I'm loving the cards and such. :)

As for macarons, last night I polished off the last of them from our trip last month. WEEP! It's the first time since we've been back that I've felt maybe I need to start planning the next one. At least I have my Laduree bulk tea left. I haven't dipped into it yet, want to make it stretch.

Paris Letters

♥carol gillott♥

l'Ile Saint Louis, Paris, Ile de France, France

Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5. I'm still at it, now tripping over cobblestones, living in a 6th-floor garret on l'Ile Saint-Louis, Paris. Read Parisbreakfast with a hot chocolate and croissant.
I paint Paris breakfasts.